It's kind of ironic that yesterday I finally figured up the cost of the eggs we gather. Being an old former livestock guy who likes to crunch numbers I keep track of cost of production on everything, though my figures CAN BE FLAWED.
We have 15 HyLine chickens the granddaughters got free as chicks last spring. The stipulation was the girls had to show them at the Clay County Fair last September. They're supposed to be the big guns in laying production. They are putting out an average of 13.5 eggs a day from the 15 of them. I weighed the eggs and they average 2.5 oz each. We buy the feed in 50 LB bags from the farm store. The feed is crumbles mixed for layers. A bag is $14.00 and they eat 5 pounds of feed a day on average if they're locked inside, 4 pounds when we let them outside in the 14X40 foot pen.
Anyway, I came up with $1.24 per dozen eggs for feed alone . Then for this winter there's 5 gallons of water every 3.5 days, one heat lamp, the water heater under the water and two 100 watt lights that come on at 5:00AM and hut off at 8:AM. In the summer there's practically no electricity to worry about. I don't know what the equipment cost is exactly. We have one waterer we purchased new last summer, the nests and feeder are ancient ones I resurrected. I made the roosts out of old used lumber. We use one bag of wood chips per month for bedding.
I don't know how to expense out the $1000.00 I put in the building last spring for new skids, insulating, new sheeting on three sides re-siding, six new windows, rewiring and new roof. That expense can be spread out over 30 years, I suppose.
So to summarize it, I'd guess a dozen eggs from our chicken house costs us $1.75. Jim [/u:b5fd1b0a3e][u:b5fd1b0a3e][u:b5fd1b0a3e][/u:b5fd1b0a3e]
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